Chapter 212 A Thorough Investigation of the Nanny!!

He pressed her hand against his burning cheek, and hot tears fell drop by drop onto the back of her hand.

A thousand words were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't utter a single one.

Su Yue looked at him and smiled weakly.

She moved her lips and uttered her first words after giving birth in a faint, breathy voice that only the two of them could hear.

That question wasn't directed at the child, nor was it about the pain the child was experiencing.

Instead, it says: "Check... that Xiao Lan, and the oil on the ground."

Su Yue's voice was as faint as a feather, yet it was like a red-hot steel needle, piercing deeply into Gu Beichen's heart.

The immense joy of becoming a father was instantly replaced by a chilling, murderous intent.

He carefully placed Su Yue's cold hands back into the warm blankets, and then took one last deep look at the two tiny, wrinkled lives in the incubator.

That was his child.

It was his and Su Yue's child who almost couldn't come into this world.

Gu Beichen stood up and turned to face Huo Shouzhen and Gu Zhengfeng, who both had solemn expressions.

"Dad, father-in-law, I'm leaving this to you."

His voice was calm, so calm that it was completely still, but the two elders, who had spent their lives in the military, could hear the deathly stillness before a storm was brewing in it.

"Go," Huo Shouzhen said, uttering only two words.

Gu Beichen nodded, then turned and strode away without glancing at the delivery room again.

His tall figure disappeared at the end of the corridor, and the murderous aura he exuded, honed from countless battles, made the nurses along the way instinctively give him a wide berth.

On New Year's Eve, every household in the military compound was brightly lit and filled with joy.

The Gu family courtyard was in a mess, and the New Year's Eve dinner in the living room was still on the table, but it had long since gone cold.

Gu Beichen pushed open the door and entered, ignoring Zhang Huilan, who was also looking panicked and stayed at home, and walked straight towards the corridor leading to the bedroom.

The oil stain on the ground was still clearly visible under the light, emitting a greasy smell.

He didn't even bend down; he just stood there, glanced at it, and then turned his gaze towards the kitchen.

In the kitchen, the young nanny named Xiaolan was being watched by two guards, huddled in a corner, trembling like a leaf in the autumn wind.

When she saw Gu Beichen walk in, her already bloodless face instantly turned ashen.

Gu Beichen didn't say anything.

He simply walked up to her, looked down at her, and then slowly raised his hand, pointing to the pair of worn-out cloth shoes on her feet.

The edge of the shoe sole was stained with a small amount of yellowish oil that matched the color of the ground.

"ah!"

Xiao Lan felt as if all the bones in her body had been removed; she let out a short scream and collapsed to the ground.

She broke down.

Under Gu Beichen's terrifying, almost tangible pressure, her last line of psychological defense was easily crushed.

"It wasn't me! I didn't want to harm the young mistress! It was Yunlan! That woman named Yunlan forced me to do it!"

Xiao Lan, tears streaming down her face, cried incoherently and confessed everything.

From how the young soldier found her, how he tempted her with gold and the promise of changing her family's fate, to how she struggled between conscience and desire, and finally chose to strike on New Year's Eve.

Everything was explained clearly.

Zhang Huilan felt a chill run down her spine. She never imagined that this seemingly timid and honest girl could harbor such a vicious mind.

After listening, Gu Beichen's expression remained unchanged.

He simply gave a wink to the guard behind him.

"Take him away and find the soldier who delivered the message; interrogate him as well."

"yes!"

The guards carried Xiaolan, who had collapsed into a limp mess, out of the building.

Gu Beichen turned around, picked up the phone on the table, and dialed Zhou Qihang's dormitory number.

The phone rang for a long time before it was answered.

"Hello?" Zhou Qihang's voice was heavy with fatigue and hoarseness.

"It's me, Gu Beichen."

Zhou Qihang's heart sank.

How is Su Yue?

"Mother and child are safe." Gu Beichen's voice was unreadable. "Come to my house."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Half an hour later, Zhou Qihang, wearing only a thin shirt, hurriedly arrived at the Gu family's courtyard.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw a statement on the table and a small tape recorder.

Gu Beichen pressed the play button.

From the tape recorder came Xiaolan's tearful, intermittent confession, which clearly recounted how Yunlan, through a soldier, promised her a large sum of money and benefits, and instructed her to murder Su Yue.

As Zhou Qihang listened, his body began to tremble slightly uncontrollably.

He always thought that putting Yunlan in a military prison would be the end of it.

He thought that even if that woman was vicious, she should know how to restrain herself.

He never imagined that she would be so heartless and insane!

She even managed to reach out her venomous claws from the heavily guarded prison, almost destroying two families!

Overwhelmed him by immense shame, anger, and despair.

"Bang!"

Zhou Qihang slammed his fist hard on the table, and the back of his hand instantly became a bloody mess.

He raised his head, his bloodshot eyes looking at Gu Beichen. This resolute man now looked as wretched as a wild beast trapped in a cage.

"Commander Gu..."

His lips moved, but he couldn't utter a single word.

An apology? I'm sorry?

Faced with two lives that nearly perished, any words seem so pale and powerless.

Gu Beichen stood up and walked up to him.

"Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou, I respect you as a true man."

Gu Beichen spoke slowly and deliberately, each word like a piece of ice striking Zhou Qihang's heart.

“But your wife has tried to kill my wife and children time and time again.”

"You handle this matter."

After saying that, Gu Beichen stopped looking at him and turned to walk out of the living room.

In the courtyard, the sound of firecrackers for the New Year was still ringing out sporadically, but the air inside the house was as cold as a Siberian cold front.

Zhou Qihang stood alone in the living room for a very long time.

So long that the tea on the table had completely cooled down.

He finally moved.

He said nothing, simply picked up the statement, turned and walked out.

His steps were steady, and his back was straight, as if he had transformed back into the fearless Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou on the battlefield.

Military prison, solitary confinement cell.

Yunlan was lying on the cold wooden bed, imagining Su Yue dying along with her unborn child, and Gu Beichen in unbearable pain. There was even a smug smile on her lips.

The heavy iron gate was opened with a loud bang.

Yunlan sat up impatiently, about to scold him, when she saw Zhou Qihang standing at the door.

"What are you doing here? To laugh at me?" Yunlan's face was full of sarcasm.